This article is part of a multi-part series about interesting APIs that were added to our directory during 2017. App Development Tools and DevOps APIs are covered in this segment. The APIs were chosen by our researchers, by popularity according to website traffic, and by mentions on social media.

In today's roundup we cover Google's work to bring the Activity Recognition Transition API to developers next year in order to power the Do Not Disturb mode when driving. We also look at proposed standards from the W3C and IFX Forum for an Indexed Database and open banking APIs.

Heroku's app webhooks offering is now generally available for all Heroku users. App webhooks allows users to automatically send notifications to developers in the event of specified occurrences. Whether communication is through a bot, dashboard, or otherwise, app webhooks can power communications.

The PopcornNotify API allows you to build apps for sending simple emails and text messages. Its access requires an API Key that costs $10 for each batch of 1000 messages and last one year. The API’s...

The PopcornNotify API allows you to build apps for sending simple emails and text messages. Its access requires an API Key that costs $10 for each batch of 1000 messages and last one year. The API’s...